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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
Automatic tellers make banking convenient despite drawbacks
By GEORGE NORTON
They are winking, blinking, wizards of wampum. Sometimes useful, sometimes a hindrance, but usually they are available.
They are the automatic teller machines — those modern, marvels of monetary magic that are designed to help make life a little easier.
ATMs offer KU students, or anyone else, the opportunity to be flexible with banking hours, especially if someone needs cash and is unable to get to the bank before it closes. Most ATMs are available 24 hours a day.
In spite of their advantages, people have mixed emotions about them.
"I have an account with a local bank that includes a teller card," said Bob Flores, Chicago freshman. "But I plan on using it sparingly. I had a similar card in Orlando and found that I didn't save as much money because it was always available to me."
In many cases, a fee is required for possession and use of the teller cards.
The convenience of the card was one of the Flores' considerations when he opened his account, but it is a convenience that is not always free.
Lawrence bank officials said. All banks contacted said the card came as an option with the account opened at that bank.
Of the 10 banking institutions in Lawrence, eight offer a teller card as an option with their accounts. Five banks offer the card as a free service with their accounts. Three of the five remaining banks charge between $3 and $5 for their card, and two banks offer no teller card feature.
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The number of teller machines available varies from bank to bank as do their locations.
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Zacharias said the traffieway would be built with a combination of county, state and federal funds.
The commission soon will begin wrestling with the issue of student housing in the Oread neighborhood. They are trying to balance the need for student housing near campus with the need to keep the neighborhood looking good.
The Oread neighborhood lies east of campus, roughly from Ninth Street to 19th Street and from Indiana Street to Vermont Street.
In April, the Oread Neighborhood Association asked the commission to change the zoning of part of the area to allow fewer housing units per lot.
The area in question includes the oo900 1000 Indianapolis, Louisiana, Omaha, Tampa, Texas.
Since 1960, many KU students have rented houses and apartments in the area. If the request for a zoning change is approved, the result could be fewer units available for future rental.
Oread was initially zoned "residential dormitory," meaning that a typical 5,850-square-foot lot could contain as many as six apartment units.
Fred Sack, a member of the association, said the association would like to see the area rezoned to allow only one apartment for each 3,500 square feet.
Association members expressed concern about absentee landlords who allowed their properties to become run down. Members also did not want the area to become exclusively student housing.
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Gene Williams, downtown fixture, spends a lot of time in South Park.
But Sack said the association did not want to exclude students from the area.
"Basically, it's a preservation issue," Sack said. "We're concerned about keeping the structures in the neighborhood."
we want to see that the area contains a mix of students and single-family homes," he said. "There is such a demand for housing in the area that many houses with historical value may be sacrificed. We want to prevent that from happening."
pringle David Guntert, Lawrence city planner, arranged a July 7 meeting between the association and landlords who opposed the rezoning request.
"Essentially, the planning staff has tried to get the two different sides together to form a compromise," Gunter said. "Both groups want to explore options. Consequently, the item has been deferred until the September commission meeting."
Gunter said two compromises were being explored; better enforcement of existing city codes that require properties to be kept in good repair, and excluding those properties under development from zoning changes.
"Developers want to make sure that land that they purchased can be developed under the area's current zoning standards." Guntert said. "Better code enforcement would help to ensure that the houses and apartments in the area do not look run down."
Guntert said he was optimistic that the two sides could reach a compromise.
"The fact that the two groups are talking is a really good start," he said.
Alice—Ann Darrow, assistant professor of art and music education and music therapy, teaches an American Sign Language class in Bailey Hall.
Music and sign language are perfect combination for prof
By CARLA PATINO Staff writer
Staff writer
Seeing a movie helped Alice-Ann Darrow decide what to do with her life.
The movie, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," is about a deaf man and his efforts to communicate with hearing townpeople who didn't know how to use sign language and didn't want to put out the effort to learn. At the end of the movie, the man takes his life.
"The movie made me aware of the isolation that the hearing-mpaired people experienced," she said. "I constantly thought about that movie for the next three days."
Darrow is an assistant professor of art and music education and music therapy. In addition to her music classes, she teaches American Sign Language, known as Ameslan, to both hearing and hearing-impaired students.
When she can, she combines the two most important things in her life: music and teaching Ameslan.
Darrow said that one of the most rewarding moments in her teaching experience was when she brought some deaf students into a music class.
"I had mainstreamed the deaf children in a regular music class, and when the hearing children saw them, they became very surprised," she said. "But after they heard the deaf children playing the guitar and singing the song" "I Believe in Music" through signs, they started looking up to them.
"I started taking piano lessons when I was 8," she said. "There was music around the house all the time."
Her other interest, classical music, also was formed in her childhood.
"At that moment I saw the magic signing could bring. It is a very visual and attractive concept, making pictures with the language."
Darrow's experience with hearing-impaired people began when she was born; her father was hearing impaired.
"I didn't think much about it. I just talked louser and talked directly to him," she said. I never focused much attention on it because I grew with him.
Her parents, O.B. Darrow, who worked for the U.S. Customs Service at Miami International Airport, and Bernice Darrow, who was a school secretary, didn't have college education. So they were pleased when
She said that as a child she was not impressed by her father's hearing impairment because it became part of the family environment.
their only daughter decided to major in music therapy and music education at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
Darrow said that throughout school, her teachers have her main
"My teachers impressed me very much. I guess that is why I ended up teaching," she said. "My parents cared more about moral values."
For someone interested in both music and helping people to communicate, music therapy and music education majors were the perfect combination. While in college, she also worked as a teaching assistant for the FSU School of Music.
She received a master's degree in music therapy in 1978 and a doctorate in music education and music therapy in 1983, both from FSU.
Months later, Darrow came to the University of Kansas as an assistant professor in the department of art and music education and music therapy. Although it was hard for her to leave Florida, she said, professionally she felt very fortunate.
George Duerksen, chairman of the department, said he was excited to have Darrow teaching a conversational sign language class.
"The success the class is having is because she is an excellent teacher. Every term for the past years we had to close enrollment early," he said. "Students have shown interest all the time."
"She didn't use only her voice and hands in teaching the class, but also
Marta Brow, a Lawrence senior who took the class last semester, said Darrow was well-organized and entertaining.
"I have to realize that they can't hear as well as I do," she said. "They can name musical instruments but can't discriminate some sounds."
her face expressions and body movement." Brow said.
Sometimes Darrow gets impatient with her deaf students, she said, but when she sees their progress, her momentary impatience transforms itself into a learning experience.
Although most of her personal interests are tied to her job, Darrow does have other hobbies. She enjoys reading non-fiction books, writing and playing with her beagle, Pooch, who makes so much noise when he barks that even Darrow's hearing-impaired friends can hear him.
She has loved dogs as long as she can remember. Remembering an episode of her childhood related to her love for dogs makes her laugh.
"When I was a kid I wanted a dog, but my father never got me one. On his birthday, I decided to get him one," she said. "He didn't like the idea and reluctantly built a fence around the house. It turned out to be a very expensive present."
She also volunteers once a week at the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe and has been organizing sign language theater in conjunction with the Lawrence Community Theater, 1501 New Hampshire St.
In the future, Darrow said she would enjoy traveling to other countries and getting acquainted with the different methods of communicating with the hearing-impaired. As for her professional future, she said she was satisfied with what she was doing.
"I am doing exactly what I will like to do until the day I die." she said.
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